This project brings wildlife-friendly farmers together in the vicinity of the Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership area, to deliver an integrated community engagement programme designed to promote awareness of, learning about and on-going access to the area’s unique farm wildlife and archaeological heritage. Read More »

Through a series of small-scale community archaeological excavations (and related projects and events) this project will both generate materials to allow for a fuller appreciation of the area’s past and palaeo-environmental history, as well as give local communities, and up to 100 volunteers, a hands-on experience of these and exposure to basic archaeological recording/excavation skills. Read More »

OuseFest is on between 20th July and 1st August 2015! Find out more and download the full programme on the OuseFest page!

This project involves the organisation, co-ordination and promotion of two Festival Fortnights scheduled for the last two weeks of July in 2015 and 2016, encouraging both locals and visitors to participate and engage with the Ouse Washes LP landscape and its unique heritage; the project will promote a range of events held across the whole of the OWLP area, delivered in partnership with a host of local organisations. Read More »

This project is focused on the organisation and facilitation of a major debate on the future of the Ouse Washes area and OWLP’s legacy. This will involve bringing together people representing all different types of land use interests, including landowners, land managers, flood defence staff, environmental/wildlife groups, user groups and local communities, to further define the future legacy of the Ouse Washes landscape and its heritage. Read More »

This project aims to help develop the Great Ouse Wetland as part of the OWLP area, in order to form a unified destination for local and visitor audiences interested in enjoying and engaging with the natural heritage of the area and the human history that created and maintains it; the project will enable WWT Welney Wetland Centre to act as one northern gateway to exploring and understanding the area, whilst creating a living archive of Fenland natural history produced by the local people with the Fenland Stories to be promoted online to encourage visitation to the area. Read More »

This project’s overarching aim is to sow the seeds and make more of a visitor destination of the Denver Sluice Complex based on the confluence of the Ely Ouse, Hundred Foot, Tidal Great Ouse, Cut Off and Relief Channels in Norfolk; this project will provide the foundation upon which this can start to be realised for the site at Denver. Read More »

About the Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership

The Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership (OWLP) scheme is a Heritage Lottery Fund grant-aided scheme in the heart of the Cambridgeshire and Norfolk Fens focusing on the distinctively rural, open and tranquil landscape surrounding the Ouse Washes and its unique heritage. Find out more >>